Many people are aware of the disproportionate impact the criminal justice system has on Black people in the United States, but they may not know this is not unique to the US, but translates wherever British Settler Colonialism took hold. What's more, the impact on indigenous populations was even more lopsided, and continues to have severe consequences well into the present.

Bryan Warde, professor in the social work program at Lehman College and in the social welfare doctoral program at the Graduate Center, discusses these topics and more for the Indoor Voices Podcast in a deep dive into his book, Colorblind: Indigenous and Black Disproportionality Across Criminal Justice Systems, with Lehman College’s Assistant Vice President for Communications & Marketing at Lehman, Richard Relkin. 

Listen to Episode 97: Bryan Warde on persistent settler colonialism